HP-UX and Linux Serviceguard Cluster Manageability, June 2007
Table Of Contents
- Purpose
- Audience
- Executive summary
- HP management solutions
- Achieving end-to-end management with HP System Management Homepage, HP Serviceguard Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Operations Manager software
- Better together: Complementary management delivering the best return on IT
- Differences between HP Serviceguard Manager stand-alone and functional area versions
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Network Node Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Operations Manager
- Example
- Usage scenarios
- Statement on future direction
- Summary
- Appendix A
- For more information
servers running HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. For cluster management,
Serviceguard Manager is used to configure, administer, and monitor Serviceguard clusters running on
HPUX and Linux.
Cluster management overview
HP Serviceguard Management Agents and providers
Serviceguard clusters can be easily managed and monitored by industry-standard management tools
through industry-standard management agents. These include SNMP agents and WBEM providers for
Serviceguard on HP-UX and Linux.
The HP Serviceguard SNMP sub-agent provides an interface to allow you to retrieve cluster-related
information such as cluster configuration and status changes and sends traps when appropriate.
The HP Serviceguard WBEM Providers provide current Serviceguard cluster configuration,
membership, and status information to Common Information Model (CIM) clients using HP WBEM
Services on HP platforms.
HP Serviceguard Manager (HP-UX and Linux)
Serviceguard Manager is a free product and provides graphical user interface (GUI)-based
management of Serviceguard products, including the creation, modification, administration, and
monitoring of clusters and packages. Serviceguard Manager runs as a stand-alone application on
HP-UX, Linux, or Microsoft Windows platforms or as a web-based System Management Homepage
functional area and manages Serviceguard clusters on HP-UX and Linux.
Serviceguard Manager includes the following features:
• GUI based management
• Cluster, node, and package configuration
• Cluster monitoring
• Cluster administration
• Roles-based access definition
• Supported on Windows , HP-UX, or Linux
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